The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany’s arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy. The Nobel prize-winning author has written a poem – called ‘What needs to be said’ – which a... »
I love the decorative street lamps and lack of traffic signs (as well as street furniture like newspaper boxes and garbage cans) in this undated postcard, which depicts the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. The General Sherman statue is there, so... »
Fourteen demonstrators were arrested yesterday in a meandering march from Zuccotti Park to Union Square to protest NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and his department. A majority of the arrests were for disorderly conduct, though the NYPD did... »
Police arrested at least five people this afternoon during a protest march against police brutality organized by the Occupy Wall Street movement. One of the arrests »
Dozens of protesters gathered in Foley Square this afternoon and marched to 1 Police Plaza to demand that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tender his resignation. The protest was spurred by the string of violent arrests made by the NYPD as protest... »
C.S. MuncyOccupy Wall Street protests on Saturday at Zuccotti Park.Mayor Mike Bloomberg has a solution for the tense police-protester relationship at Occupy Wall Street: barricades. At a press »
About a dozen people were arrested near Zuccotti Park as hundreds gathered in the Financial District and embarked upon a winding march. »
A blaze caused by an electric space heater quickly spread to three other floors of a Lower East Side high-rise before 130 firefighters brought it under control yesterday. The fire began in a 16th-floor bedroom at 89 Columbia St. at about 11 a.m., the F... »
